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ECDYSIS
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Irregular inflected form: ecdyses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles
Synonyms:
ecdysis; molt; molting; moult; moulting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("ecdysis" is a kind of...):
shedding; sloughing (the process whereby something is shed)
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